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Jonas in the Fields

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Peter Sempel // Germany, 2021
Documentary Feature // FF2021
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DOCUMENTARY In his fourth film about Jonas Mekas, Peter Sempel accompanies the indie icon over his final years. An associative road movie with well-known guests – and happy birds. Jonas Mekas died in 2019 aged 96. Since the end of the 1980s, Peter Sempel has met the film poet regularly all over the world. Now it’s time to film the final encounters: chez Mekas in Brooklyn, in the fields of Lithuania where he grew up, on a reading tour in Hamburg. On the way, he meets artists for whom Mekas was an inspiration: Jim Jarmusch, John Waters, Julian Schnabel. In one of the last scenes, Mekas looks up at the sky and says: »Look, the birds are happy«.

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Jonas In The Fields

Documentary Feature

English, German, Lithuanian

Hamburger Filmschau//FF2021


Germany

2021

107 min

OV with German subtitles

Peter Sempel

Jonas Mekas, Sebastian Mekas, Jim Jarmusch, John Waters, Julian Schnabel, Steve Buscemi, Heike Geißler, Lillian Isabella, Phong Bui, Indra Drevinskaitè, Simon de Pury, Patti Smith, Allen Ginsberg, Michael Stipe, Holger Steen, John Leland, Andy Lampert, Peter Brötzmann, Vyt Bakaitis and friends…, …horses, cows and happy birds…

Peter Sempel

Peter Sempel

Ralph Thiekötter (Studio Funk)

Peter Sempel, Robert Strauß

Matthias Schuster, Das Institut, Saal 2, Bürgermeister Der Nacht, Peter Brötzmann, Auguste Varkalis, Now We Are Here Band, Jonas, Ziz ...

Frank Hellmann (Optical Art)

Peter Sempel Film&Foto

FFHSH

Peter Sempel: sempel@t-online.de

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